Recognizing the Latino Resurgence in U.S. Religion: The Emmaus Paradigm

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Questions
	Survey Analysis of Latino Religion
	Positive Contributions
	Inclusion of Theology
	Tradition and the Diachronic-Synchronic Dilemma
	The Term \"Latino\"
	Census Data on Latinos
	Population Facts and Figures
	Latinos and the American Prospect
	The Contours of Latino Religious Belonging
	Americanization and Assimilation
	Race and Ethnicity
	Social Mobility and Denominational Affiliation
	Civil Religion
	Notes
2 Tradition
	The Burden of Temporality
	Social Location
	Social Location and the Political Process
	The Religious Imagination
	The Dynamics of Tradition
	The Sociohistoric Context
	The Latino Religious Tradition
	The Agricultural Cycle
	The Life Cycle
	Other Religions Within the Latino Tradition
	African Transculturation
	Freethinkers and Spiritism
	The U.S. Conquest
	The Impact of Migration
	The Matriarchal Core
	Notes
3 Invasions
	Colonialism and Religion
	Invasions and Transculturation
	Spanish Colonialism
	Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
	Florida
	New Mexico
	Texas
	California
	Popular Catholicism in the Caribbean
	The Colonial Difference
	The U.S. Invasions
	Colonialism and the Demise of the Agricultural Economy
	Internal Colonialism
	Pious Colonialism
	U.S. Catholic Colonialism
	Native Clergy
	The Pentecostal Role in Colonialism
	The Consequence of Pious Colonialism
	Notes
4 Syzygy
	Movement to Cities
	The Latino Religious Resurgence
	Basic Characteristics of the Latino Religious Resurgence
	Religion and Social Change
	Generational Change
	The Mentalité of the Resurgence
	The Leitmotif of the Resurgence
	Catholicism\'s Cursillo Movement
	Syzygy
	Third Worldism
	Reies López Tijerina
	Antulio Parrilla Bonilla
	The Urban Revolts of 1967
	César Chávez
	Resurgence Wildfire
	Generational Leadership
	Notes
5 Agenda
	Leadership of the Resurgence
	Virgilio Elizondo and Justo González
	Leadership Through Deroutinization
	Structuration
	The Argument of Representativity
	Cultural Idiosyncrasy
	Poverty as Oppression
	Democratization
	Cross-Validation
	PADRES
	The Encounters
	Theology in the Americas
	Weakness of the Institutions
	Protestant Leadership
	Women\'s Leadership
	The Encounter Results
	The Second Encounter
	Puerto Rican and Radical Politics
	Notes
6 Ledger
	The Irreversible Changes
	Latino Franchising
	The Lucerne Memorial and the First Encounter Document
	The Bottom Line for the Latino Catholic Church
	Social Forces of Cultural Affirmation
	Cross-Validation of Organizations as Social Capitalization
	Bases of Power: Religious Marketing
	Music: A Bonus Payoff
	Education, the Reliable Investment
	Theology as a Spin-Off Industry
	Catholic Downsizing
	Cultural Idiosyncrasy as a Write-Off
	New Movements and the Privatization of Religious Production
	Latino Pentecostals as a Growth Industry
	Structural Changes in Latino Pentecostalism
	Pentecostal Latinas
	The Bottom Line
7 Options
	Organizations and Multiple Identities
	Denominational Belonging and Multiple Identities
	Control of Organizations
	Cultural Citizenship as an Identity
	Latino Youth and Religious Schools
	Latino Youth and Religious Formation
	The Ensemble
	The Production of Symbolic Capital
	Social Capital
	Civilizational Difference
	Global Relations
	Notes
Bibliography
Index